Health & Medicine
Five Questions with JoAnn Manson
A veteran women’s health advocate on federal funding cuts
by Lydialyle Gibson
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet,” by “Samuel Shem,” probes medicine—and life.
by Craig Lambert
Computational Control of a Living Brain?
How an AI agent learned to guide an animal to food—and what it might mean for Parkinson’s patients.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Male-Female Longevity Gap Widens
Men’s lower life expectancy fueled by COVID-19, overdoses
by Max J. Krupnick
You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat
Diet, cooking, and the human microbiome
by Veronique Greenwood
Vikram Patel
He wanted to be a chef, but instead became a leader in global health
by Jonathan Shaw
The Brain-Cancer Link
Growth-stimulating crosstalk between the brain and cancer tumors presents a new target for therapy.
by Daniel Oberhaus
Tackling the Dental Care Desert
Harvard alumnae establish a college of dental medicine in rural Missouri.
by Ryan Doan-Nguyen
Post-COVID Learning Losses
Children face potentially permanent setbacks
by Ryan Doan-Nguyen
Rising Risks with COVID Reinfection
Emerging evidence on severe complications
by Jonathan Shaw
COVID-19 Common Sense
Harvard experts on healthy holiday gatherings—and the risk of a “tripledemic”
by Jonathan Shaw